Lauer Introducing Vala Programming

A Language and Techniques to Boost Productivity
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4842-5380-9
Verlag: APRESS
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

Reihe: Apress Access Books

Get an introduction into the Vala programming language and learn about its syntax, semantics, and idioms. Do you want to boost your productivity? Are you interested in a programming language that combines the efficiency of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled language? Did you always want to write GTK+ or GNOME programs, but hate C with a passion? Read this book and learn Vala!
Introducing Vala Programming starts from Hello World and goes up to graphical user interfaces using GTK+, covering DBus interprocess communication, network programming, Linux specifics, and more. You’ll learn how to leverage external libraries and enhance Vala by writing bindings to new libraries.

What You Will Learn

• Discover the Vala programming language and how to use it to boost your productivity
• Use Vala syntax and semantics
• Write object-oriented code with Vala
• Work with DBus
• Implement networking with Vala
• Integrate and use external libraries with bindings and libgusb

Who This Book Is For
People with basic programming experience in any imperative programming language. 

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lauer, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Getting Started.- 3. Syntax & Semantics.- 4. Object Oriented Programming.- 5. Networking.- 6. UI Programming with GTK+.- 7. DBus.- 8. Linux.- 9. External Libraries.- 10.  Afterword.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer is a freelance software architect and author living in Neu-Isenburg, Germany. He is a free software enthusiast who enjoys solving problems with mobile and distributed systems. Learn more on his personal website.